Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

Silent comedy short.

Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters.

The film is about a married man who cheats on his wife. Halil, a father of two, lives a happy life with his wife and children. However, despite loving his wife, he begins a relationship with another woman. After a while, he falls in love with this young woman named Deniz. He goes on vacation with Deniz. However, this vacation will not end as Halil had hoped.

This was a concert video released thru Sonic Death, filmed on January 5th, 1985 in the Mojave Desert. This was SY's first west coast excursion.

An Iranian TV-play adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

Silayan talks about his beginnings as an actor in the 1950s, his working method in front of the camera and on stage and the realities of working in mainstream Philippine movies.

A talking man and a scratching female artist.

A trilogy of horror stories with ironic twists: a teenager tries out a love potion, a waitress gets involved in a kidnapping plot, two brothers plan to cheat an insurance company by faking their death.

Documentary film directed by Manuel de Pedro and shot from 1983 to 1984. It portrays the creative, research, and learning process of a group of people who traveled to the most remote corners of the Venezuela in search of its authentic artistic expressions.

Picturesque sketches on the themes: “Waltz”, “Apple Trees”, “Spot”, “Boats”, “Duet”.

During the dry season in a small village, a road worker innocently gets mixed up in a struggle for water between two clans .

The film shows the exercises of soldiers of the Polish People's Army with a Kalashnikov

The story of the freewheeling Flappers of the 1920s, told by the Flappers themselves.

A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.

Gray urban architecture is the starting point of an atmospheric appraisal in Raoul Peck's MERRY CHRISTMAS DEUTSCHLAND

The Union Jacking Up is an ode to friends, including Trojan and Leigh Bowery who feature in the film among others, as well as a collage of news footage of 80s Britain. The film’s haunting soundtrack is composed similarly to the video and 16mm footage that fades and dissolves on screen, often montaging two sources to create abstract combinations and juxtapositions. - ICA

It is the 1950s: Bill Thompson is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship on the Clyde. He lodges with a Greenock family, and forms an attachment to his landlady, Mrs Mulvenny , which is to affect his life for the next 20 years

Over a million black women live in a state of domestic bondage, underpaid, working long hours, at the mercy of draconian laws which separate them from their own families. This powerful 1985 documentary, shot in South Africa, examines the tragedy of Apartheid through the complex relationship between a black household worker and her white employer. This domestic situation is a microcosm of the situation at large.

A montage tribute to motherhood to the song of the same name by Minimal Man.

A filmic homage to Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons": Everyday objects and especially house plants are imbued with cubist dimensions – everything moves, everything is alive. Lesbian fellowship swims like fish in the water to a shore of ruins – this city can only be "ash". (Andrea B. Braidt)

Jean-Pierre, a French jerk living in New York, is in desperate need of money. His friend Barry, a wealthy American, is coming to dinner. But is Jean Pierre any match for Barry since he proposes a bet? Because if Jean-Pierre wins, he gets the money. If he loses, Barry sleeps and has sex with Jean-Pierre's wife.

The story of how 60-year-old abstract impressionist painter Harold Shapinsky was discovered the previous year by Akumal Ramachander, an Indian professor of English.

Old Master Carlo carved himself a wooden boy, dressed him, taught him to walk, and the very next day sent the boy to school to learn. But Buratino chose to trade studying for going to the theater. He sold his alphabet book for 30 soldi and bought a ticket to the performance. And so all the exciting adventures of Buratino begin…

Film produced by the Grupo Cine Testimonio that brings together short film works from the period 1983-1985. It includes the shorts The Nose, Not So White, Not So Indian, For Our Land, and La Cruz Gil.

A film by Edgardo Cozarinsky.

Observational documentary recording everyday life in Finland in 1983.

Early last century, many German artists like George Grosz, Emil Nolde and Otto Dix became politically involved. This film uses their art and their own words to explore a volatile period in Germany.

"With 223 I used Photographs from my past as a base. It gives the eyes something to come back to from the faster abstract shapes. The Pos/Neg flickering gives a feeling of depth. Its called 223 because I had some letterset of the numbers 223. There is a layering of images and techniques." – D. bB. from "Where's Our Satellite," Melbourne, Australia (1985)

Hasan, who lives with his family in Urfa, takes over his father's business. He then goes to Istanbul for work. There, he falls in love with a woman he meets. They spend time together. He then returns home. However, he cannot get her out of his mind. He leaves his family and returns to Istanbul. But Hasan's happiness will be short-lived.

Inspired by the early trash films of John Waters, the film stars Estdelacropolis as Demira, a gay porn actor struggling with both his emotionally complicated relationship with his mother Esther and his desire to break out of porn and into mainstream movies. He connects with a Freudian psychiatrist who is convinced that his homosexuality stems from an unresolved Oedipus complex which he has repressed by denying his natural attractions to women, to which the psychiatrist's proposed solution is to hypnotize Esther into believing that she is a man so that men will become the gender that sexually repulses Demira; in his career, he is ambivalent when the first "mainstream" role he is able to land is a gore film in which he will play the victim of a cannibal family for which Esther has also been cast as the mother.

A film which, by the use of a simple camera movement, explores and reviews some relationships to the ground. The viewpoint continuously orbits places, objects, people and events. The observations gradually speed up to reveal a double sided ground flipping like a tossed coin, then slow again to oscillate about the earths edge.

A no-holds-barred portrait of addiction, RAT TRAP is an unflinching portrayal of a junkie injecting heroin cut with footage of (already expired) rodents being tortured and maimed, all underscored by a fiery guitar rock solo, painting a grim picture of numbing daily grind, dependency, and domestic urban squalor.

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Mörike, Richard Wagner, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and Chief Seattle.

Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.

Via the New York Times: "...a frankly biased, angry recollection of the great, "man-made" famine of 1932-1933 in which up to seven million people starved to death in the Ukraine. It is the film's thesis that Stalin was directly responsible by his ruthless expropriation of virtually all of the grain harvested in the Ukraine over a two-year period."

Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in Auschwitz, her survival, marriage and life in America after World War 2.

In Sue Ford’s radical short film Egami, Melbourne’s imposing Shrine of Remembrance is rebadged the “New Settlers’ Temple of Wars” by the artist’s intergalactic visitor, who observes from a spaceship. The Shrine is one of many familiar Melbourne landmarks rendered as totalitarian monuments, which have usurped the lands of ‘the Dreaming People’, of which there is no sign left except in Swanston St souvenir stores. In Egami, fashion mannequins are interpreted as women for sale, statues are erected for white men and war, and Hamer Hall is a survival bunker, in a work that’s exploration of Australian identity and feminism is still relevant today. — ACMI

A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.

Based on a true story from the summer of 1982 when Queen Elizabeth was visited in the middle of the night by a man who managed to get into Buckingham Palace in London and right up to her bedroom.

A TV documentary about the Finnish comedy character Uuno Turhapuro.

A documentary about abortion and single mothers.

Animated film about magical bears that dance.

Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother. The filmmaking persists in spite of her grandmother's forceful objections to this invasion of her privacy. Ultimately, what emerges is a work which abruptly calls into question issues of "insider/outsider" status in a portrait of an assimilated Navajo struggling to use a "white man's" medium to capture the remnants of her cultural past.

Johnny and Laurel carry a grand piano from the Titanic back to Buckingham Palace in London. They get lost and end up on the coast of northern Germany. On their journey, they become fascinated by a Walkman.

Not the Waters of the Moon is an educational documentary developed for UNICEF. The film is to encourage vaccination of children in rural areas. The title of the film was carefully selected by the Director, to explain simply to the villagers that it is not a difficult task to perform vaccination.

Manos, a young and successful advertising man, loves women, but they love him too. His friend, Andreas, comes from the village to find him for work and he offers him full hospitality. Life is a gift for Andreas until the moment their fiancées arrive and the rescue is made...

Lesbian pinku from 1985.